{"id":751,"date":"2007-07-31T14:37:11","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T18:37:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-01-09T11:20:45","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T11:20:45","slug":"downloads-to-spare-try-the-ethiopiques-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/downloads-to-spare-try-the-ethiopiques-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Downloads to Spare? Try The \u00c9thiopiques Series"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hear it here!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

As some of you know, a complimentary month’s subscription to eMusic<\/strong> is available through the link on the right column of Rock Town Hall. Some of you might find it worth a try, and some of you might stick with it. I’ve been a subscriber for about 6 months now, and as a rock ‘n roller I’m usually disatisfied with the ample selection of crap modern music that the indie rock reviewers\/publicists tout. As an older head, eMusic is not loaded with those elusive reissues of Eric Burdon and the New Animals<\/strong> b-sides that are so easy to buy when faced with a Hobson’s Choice. Most months I need to do a little work to fill my shopping cart with 30 downloads, but I always come home satisfied with some cool stuff I might otherwise have never tried.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I try on a Neu!<\/strong> for the fifth time and and find that, after having thought little of them the first four times I was exposed to their music, they now work like a charm! Lately I’ve been dipping my toes in international waters, primarily music from various parts of Africa I, sadly, could not identify on a map lacking labels. This month I downloaded a heap of Ethiopian music from something eMusic featured called The \u00c9thiopiques Series<\/em>. As I listen back and forth to Townsman Hrrundi’s latest edition of Thrifty Music<\/strong> and these new, old finds from Ethiopia, I thought I’d share a few with you. I know nothing about these artists and the songs, although I read that one of the artists is a key to the extremely groovy soundtrack of Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers<\/em><\/strong>. Remember that cool music that plays throughout? Some of that stuff is from this Ethiopia scene from the late-60s through mid-70s. But I know nothing about any of it. Other than what I’m spinning this week. Enjoy the following tracks, about which I cannot even discern the artist vs track name!<\/em><\/p>\n

Mahmoud Ahmed, “Almaz Men Eda New”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Milhnu, “Thwhldh Rhdda”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Tlahoun Gessesse, “Tezalegn yetentu”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Getatchew Mekurya, “Almaz Yeharerwa”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Tezeta, “Nostalgia”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

You can read about this series here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hear it here! As some of you know, a complimentary month’s subscription to eMusic is available through the link on the right column of Rock Town Hall. Some of you might find it worth a try, and some of you might stick with it. I’ve been a subscriber for about 6 months now, and as […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}